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Scrabble Word Finder

Enter your rack — ? for a blank tile — and see the highest-scoring plays.

5-letter words 2

  • amble9a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
  • blame9an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

4-letter words 13

  • balm8any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing
  • beam8a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather
  • bema8area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
  • blam8
  • lamb8young sheep
  • mabe8
  • able6(usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
  • alme6
  • bale6a large bundle bound for storage or transport
  • blae6of bluish-black or grey-blue
  • lame6someone who doesn't understand what is going on
  • male6an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
  • meal6the food served and eaten at one time

3-letter words 11

  • bam7an ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an earthquake in 2003
  • alb5a white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves; worn by priests
  • bal5
  • bel5a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
  • elm5any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
  • lab5a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
  • lam5a rapid escape (as by criminals)
  • mae5
  • mel5
  • ale3a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
  • lea3a unit of length of thread or yarn

2-letter words 11

  • ab4a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
  • am4a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms
  • ba4a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
  • be4a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
  • em4a quad with a square body
  • ma4informal terms for a mother
  • me4a state in New England
  • ae2
  • al2a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
  • el2angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
  • la2a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

About the Scrabble word finder

Enter the tiles on your rack and this finds every word you can play from them, ranked by what the tiles are worth. A ? stands for a blank, which can become any letter but scores nothing itself.

Each word shows its face value: the sum of its tile values. Longer is not always better — a short word on the right square often beats a long one on plain squares, which is why the list stays sorted by score rather than by length.

Examples

retinas
256 playable words, best being the seven-letter RETAINS and NASTIER
retina?
one blank opens up KERATIN, FAINTER, HAIRNET and hundreds more
zqxjkbn
an ugly rack — the tool still finds what is playable

Tips

Common questions

How do I enter a blank tile?

Type ? for each blank. Two is the maximum, matching a standard set.

Are these words valid in official play?

They come from ENABLE, which underpins many word games. Tournament play uses TWL or Collins, which differ at the edges — check your game's own dictionary for competition.

Why does a blank score zero?

That is the rule: a blank takes the identity of any letter but carries no point value, in both Scrabble and Words with Friends.